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This year, UNESCO will conduct a fact-finding mission to decide on Wood Buffalo National Park’s World Heritage status.
The world’s coastal deltas are home to hundreds of thousands of people – but they’re now under threat.
Millions of people around the world live on river deltas and are vulnerable when those rivers shift direction. A new study shows why and where these events, called avulsions, happen.
Sea levels are rising, while deltas are being starved of sediment by upstream dams.
The Mekong Delta is gradually being washed away, as less sediment is delivered downstream.
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